Searching for new and innovative ways to present content is an
ongoing challenge for most instructional designers. If you’re stuggling with
this yourself, you may want to consider using an inconventional option—comics
and comic-style art. Comics are a great way to share content in an engaging and
effective way, and their growing popularity has helped them grow in acceptance
within L&D. That said, if you’ve never created comic-style content, it’s
hard to know where to begin—particularly if you need assistance acquiring or
creating your visuals.

In this session, you’ll find out what you need to know to get
started with using comics and comic-like approaches in your projects. You’ll explore
what ways the comic format works best for L&D and how to think about
creating comics from an instructional design perspective, including specific
approaches for leveraging comics in eLearning. You’ll then look at the
production side and learn more about writing and planning, including how to
storyboard a comic, as well as options for sourcing visuals if you’re not able
to draw them yourself.

In this session,
you will learn:

How to apply the comic format to
instructional design

How to understand the differences of
various approaches to comics

How to plan and storyboard a comic to
fit instructional design

How to source comic art or source
talent to create the visuals for your comics

Audience:Novice and intermediate designers and managers. A basic
understanding of instructional design principles is assumed; no visual design
skills are required.

Technology
discussed in this session:N/A

Kevin Thorn

Chief NuggetHead and Owner

NuggetHead Studioz

Kevin Thorn is an award-winning eLearning designer with over
30 years’ experience in the training industry, with the last
decade in eLearning. After retiring from the Army as a trainer,
Kevin earned a technology management degree in pursuit of
an IT career. When his interest in technology meshed with his
passion for training, he found a new career in eLearning.
Kevin’s experience in instructional design, storyboarding,
eLearning development, LMS implementation, illustration,
graphic design, storytelling, cartooning, and comics provides
an awareness and knowledge to successfully work any
eLearning project from cradle to grave.